Emergency Management Specialist (Response)

Summary

In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Response) for Regional Offices, Region Ten, Response Division. The ideal candidate will have experience coordinating with stakeholders on disaster response and developing disaster response plans.

Duties

• What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will be performing emergency management work including managing, and coordinating federal emergency response operations, response planning, and integration of federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and nongovernmental disaster programs. Typical assignments include:
• Performing emergency management work including managing, and coordinating federal emergency response operations, response planning, and integration of federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and nongovernmental disaster programs.
• Conducting logistical studies and customer surveys to measure and evaluate supply system responsiveness and the movement of commodities and equipment to determine transportation service requirements.
• Developing response actions for exercises tailored to the State of
• Alaska's unique transportation and supply challenges and or participate in national and regional exercises, ensuring that the State of
• Alaska and federally recognized
• Tribes needs are fully integrated into
• FEMA's broader response activities. Improving critical response planning efforts, such as the Alaska Response
• Plan, distribution management plans, logistic site assessments, and disaster operations facilities. Assuming the role of primary or alternate State Liaison
• Officer, ensuring that
• Alaska's specific needs are represented at the federal level. What else do
• I need to know? At
• FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at
• FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every
• FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites.
• All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the
• Employee's official position description.
• Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

Requirements

• To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy.
• To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Secret as a condition of placement into this position.
• This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on
• Policies for additional information).
• For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.
• The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.
• If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
• Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below.
• Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• Selective Service registration required.
• Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
• You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.
• Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.

Education

No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the “requirements” section of this announcement.

Benefits

DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays. Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers. DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities. For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select “Benefits.” Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.

Required Documents

• Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP/CTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP/CTAP eligible.
• View information about ICTAP/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website.
• To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet eligibility criteria for CTAP or ICTAP; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; and, 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility (see "Required
• Documents" section of this announcement).
• Well-Qualified is defined as those applicants who are rated with a minimum score of 80.00 for this position.
• After FEMA completes its hiring, the resumes of the remaining candidates referred for selection consideration may be shared with other DHS Components and other federal agencies.
• During the application process, you may choose to opt-in if you would like your name, application material, and assessment results to be shared.
• There is no guarantee of further consideration, and you continue to explore other job opportunity announcements.
• Do not include photos, personally identifying information (PII) (including birthday and social security numbers), or personal information such as age, sex, medical history, etc.
• Resumes that include any of this information will be disqualified.
• You must provide the following supporting documentation for your application package, including: Resume.
• Limit your resume to no more than two pages.
• The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages.
• Your responses to the job questionnaire
• You will be directed to the online job questionnaire once you begin the application process for this position.
• Are you a veteran?
• Copy 4 of your DD-214 (Certificate of
• Duty) or other acceptable documentation (i.e., a letter from your
• Command reflecting rank, dates of service, and type of discharge), which verifies veteran's status and type of discharge prior to the closing date of this announcement.
• Those applying for 10-Point preference may fill out the SF-15 and/or provide documentation that demonstrates preference eligibility.
• If applying based on eligibility under the
• Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) Act, you must submit certification from the Armed Forces that you will be discharged or released from active duty service under honorable conditions, within 120 days after the certification is submitted by the applicant.
• This must indicate your dates of service, expected release dates, your rank, and confirm that you will be separated under honorable or general conditions.
• View more veterans' information.
• Are you claiming special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)?
• Submit: a copy of your agency notice, a copy of your most recent performance rating, and a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notification of
• Action, noting your current position, grade level, and duty location
• Are you a current or former federal employee?
• Submit a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notification of
• Action that demonstrates your eligibility for consideration, e.g., length of time you have been in your current grade; your highest grade held; your current promotion potential and proof of permanent appointment if applying based on an interchange agreement.
• Examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, within-grade increases and accessions. (see Note 1).
• Note 1: Examples of applicable SF-50's for submission include appointment, promotion, and with-in-grade/range increases
• Award SF-50's will not be accepted.